Why I Want a Wife
Essay I
Matthews and Cofer both came from different cultures and both have problems. They lived two completely different lives. Both Matthew and Cofer worried about their friends excepting the fact that they had another culture. They both lived in the United States but had another life that they didn’t like sharing, but their family would not let them forget about it. In “Don’t Call Me a Hot Tamale” Cofer, “Pick One,” Matthews, and “My Two Lives,” Lahiri all face similar adversity, social problems, and tough decision. In all three stories they have different but sometimes life changing decision to make. In “Don’t Call Me a Hot Tamale,” Cofer, “Pick One,” Matthews, and “My Two Lives,” Lahiri all have different yet similar adversity. They all face dilemmas in their everyday life. In “Don’t Call Me a Hot Tamale,” Cofer gets criticized for the way dressed. When she dresses like her mother and grandmother was taught to wear. They dressed to look sexy for themselves. But others looked down on her for that. In “Pick One,” Matthews he has to make a decision that he would have to live with the rest of his life. Either he chose to be white or black. Matthews was both black and Jewish. Matthews’s mother was Jewish and his father was black. When he went to his first day of his new school, the kids looked at him. They made him chose black or white. In “My Two Lives,” Lahiri never got to forget about her second culture. Her parents reminded her every day. Social problems were a big deal for Cofer, Matthews, and Lahiri. They all went through some kind of social problems. In “Don’t Call Me Hot Tamale,” Judith Ortiz Cofer has social problems because of the way she dresses. People don’t want to talk to a person like her that dresses like that. One night she was having dinner at a nice hotel and after she ate, she went back to her room, and on her way a middle-aged man in a tuxedo stopped her and started singing her a song. In “Pick One,” David Matthews he has social
Matthews and Cofer both came from different cultures and both have problems. They lived two completely different lives. Both Matthew and Cofer worried about their friends excepting the fact that they had another culture. They both lived in the United States but had another life that they didn’t like sharing, but their family would not let them forget about it. In “Don’t Call Me a Hot Tamale” Cofer, “Pick One,” Matthews, and “My Two Lives,” Lahiri all face similar adversity, social problems, and tough decision. In all three stories they have different but sometimes life changing decision to make. In “Don’t Call Me a Hot Tamale,” Cofer, “Pick One,” Matthews, and “My Two Lives,” Lahiri all have different yet similar adversity. They all face dilemmas in their everyday life. In “Don’t Call Me a Hot Tamale,” Cofer gets criticized for the way dressed. When she dresses like her mother and grandmother was taught to wear. They dressed to look sexy for themselves. But others looked down on her for that. In “Pick One,” Matthews he has to make a decision that he would have to live with the rest of his life. Either he chose to be white or black. Matthews was both black and Jewish. Matthews’s mother was Jewish and his father was black. When he went to his first day of his new school, the kids looked at him. They made him chose black or white. In “My Two Lives,” Lahiri never got to forget about her second culture. Her parents reminded her every day. Social problems were a big deal for Cofer, Matthews, and Lahiri. They all went through some kind of social problems. In “Don’t Call Me Hot Tamale,” Judith Ortiz Cofer has social problems because of the way she dresses. People don’t want to talk to a person like her that dresses like that. One night she was having dinner at a nice hotel and after she ate, she went back to her room, and on her way a middle-aged man in a tuxedo stopped her and started singing her a song. In “Pick One,” David Matthews he has social